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I was able to do some decent gaming last night for the first time since the break, tried at various times since Friday, but last night was getting around 220ms most/a lot of the time for WOW European server. It did d/c a few times, but was fairly steady with latency. So Afrihost must have improved on their alternative routing, or I just got lucky for awhile.

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Im on Vox and I saw really high pings in WoW on Saturday (over 1000 at some stages). Sunday was better with a ping of under 400, which is till more thank double the norm, but still usable. So they either mitigated the issue or the high latency was due to another issue. Anyway Im not feeling the effects of the cable break at the moment.

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Im on Vox and I saw really high pings in WoW on Saturday (over 1000 at some stages). Sunday was better with a ping of under 400, which is till more thank double the norm, but still usable. So they either mitigated the issue or the high latency was due to another issue. Anyway Im not feeling the effects of the cable break at the moment.

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Still don't understand why the other cables north out of portugal aren't being used. As an example the SAT3 cable actual has a seperate nothern path out of Portugal. Simple to use that????? Just x-connect.

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I cannot fathom why it takes 5 days to load the ship before setting sail, can the ship be preloaded with spares so the can depart immediately?
Most maintenance people like electricians and plumbers etc etc. Carry the most common spares in their vehicles all the time.

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I cannot fathom why it takes 5 days to load the ship before setting sail, can the ship be preloaded with spares so the can depart immediately?
Most maintenance people like electricians and plumbers etc etc. Carry the most common spares in their vehicles all the time.

Unfortunately it's not that simple. They have to get the right parts for the cable that's broken, as not all of these cables use interchangeable components. It might be that some parts are on back order or even made to order due to cost. The common components they will have, but it's the specialised stuff that is a problem.

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I cannot fathom why it takes 5 days to load the ship before setting sail, can the ship be preloaded with spares so the can depart immediately?
Most maintenance people like electricians and plumbers etc etc. Carry the most common spares in their vehicles all the time.

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Why are the cables breaking so much lately are they rotting from age or wtf.I play on eu and subscribed to a gaming vpn it keeps my ping at around 200ms.Im a Vox Fibre 20/10 customer and before the cable break in January i had 160ms to eu game server after they fixed it i had 216ms.After 10 calls and working with them testing they told me its a routing issues 2 hops before the gaming server and its out of their network nothing they can do.The gaming vpn brought my ping back to 150-160ms but why should i pay more money for a vpn The fibre is running on Openserve i have my suspition the problem is Openserve.I have to wait a year to cancel tho.I got a test account from another ISP so i will test after these breaks are repaired.#staysafe guys